Boeing (BA), the world’s largest aerospace company, was down over 5.1% today as of 1:50 PM EST. If the stock stays in the negative territory today, it will mark the eighth consecutive session of losses for Boeing. Boeing stock has been under pressure in November so far after a Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane crashed in the Java Sea on October 29.

‘From a markets perspective, it’s going to be interesting. Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge-fund luminary, said he’s stress-testing his portfolio of corporate debt because he expects a tumultuous road ahead on the back of the Federal Reserve’s apparent commitment to normalizing interest rates and buttressed by corporate tax cuts from the Trump administration. Speaking at an economic forum in Greenwich, Conn., a hotbed for hedge funds, Jones said the Fed faces real challenges amid “the end of a 10-year run” of economic growth that many anticipate will soon come to a screeching, cyclical end.

Reality continues to rain down on formerly high-flying big tech stocks. Sales growth in 2019 will probably be less explosive than 2018. Blame slowing user growth at the likes of Facebook or more competition for Amazon from the increasingly digitally savvy Target – the fact is the sales growth environment for big tech is taking a turn for the worse.

Eric Schmidt joined Google as CEO in 2001 and led the tech company for the next decade as the company grew from a start-up to a corporate behemoth, whose parent company, Alphabet, now has a market cap of over $740 billion . "They were super smart, somewhat disorganized kinds of people," Schmidt told Tyler Cowen on the " Conversations with Tyler " podcast. "The recruiting started off as informal, but it ultimately became very, very structured," Schmidt said.

If you have just $4,210 to your name, you're better off than half of people around the globe.
That's according to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, which also found that to be among
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) has been busy. In addition to swooping in and buying bundles of bank stocks, Buffett sold some of Berkshire's longtime holdings in the third quarter. Since Berkshire Hathaway manages a portfolio worth more than $200 billion, and it tends to be among the biggest owners of the stocks it purchases, knowing what stocks it's selling is important.

The market could take another leg down, says BNY Mellon's Alicia Levine. State Street's Michael Arone doesn't see the end of the bull market, yet. The bull market is "in trouble," strategist Alicia Levine told CNBC on Monday.

The backdrop is a grim one for Chevron (NYSE:CVX), as well as for its peers/rivals Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and even foreign oil giant BP (NYSE:BP). Although revenue of $46.4 billion fell short of estimates, it was still well up from the top line of $34.1 billion produced in the third quarter of last year.

Shares of Nvidia Corp. dropped another 12% Monday as investors continue to punish the chipmaker following disappointing revenue and guidance in its third-quarter earnings results.
Nvidia lost $19.73 to close at $144.70, and shares hit a new 52-week

There are plenty of things that can ruin a person’s retirement plans — divorce, illness, job loss, overspending. A recent study has revealed for the first time the 10 biggest causes of financial regret among those who have retired or are near to retirement. The survey was conducted by researchers from the RAND Corporation and the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany.

General Electric will be able to reduce its debt "to far more acceptable levels by 2020," UBS said Monday. "We maintain our conviction that the stock presents a long-term capital appreciation opportunity," UBS analyst Steven Winoker said in a note. UBS said General Electric GE will be able to reduce its debt "to far more acceptable levels by 2020," despite fears the industrial conglomerate's bonds could soon become junk-rated.

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. One way to find these companies is by looking at several key metrics and financial ratios, many of which are crucial in the value stock selection process. A key metric that value investors always look at is the Price to Earnings Ratio, or PE for short.

(Bloomberg) -- Shares of Micron Technology are down 2 percent pre-market, after the Financial Times reported that Chinese authorities would deepen an antitrust probe into Micron and two other chipmakers, claiming ”massive evidence” of violations.Western

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The changes mark another step in new GE Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp's urgent effort to reduce heavy debt and restore profits at the 126-year-old, Boston-based conglomerate. It also highlights the problems at GE Power. Culp reorganized the division three weeks ago, separating its gas-turbine business from units that make coal- and nuclear-fueled power plants, power grids and other equipment.

Shares of Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are up 12% so far this year, handily beating the S&P 500's paltry 2% gain as the end of 2018 nears. The main reason for Verizon's 2018 advance has to do with modest gains in its subscriber base. In the third quarter of 2018, Verizon reported 515,000 net additions to its postpaid wireless-subscriber base.

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) recently revealed the contents of its closely watched stock portfolio as of the third quarter, and to the surprise of many investors, the company spent an 11-figure sum on bank stocks. In all, Berkshire Hathaway's bank stocks, much of which were selected by CEO Warren Buffett himself, are worth more than $86 billion as of this writing.

As supreme ruler of the online retail landscape, Amazon has built quite the reputation for extraordinary Black Friday deals. Last year alone the selection was so generous and diverse that the website went on to handle 54.9% of all online Black Friday transactions, according to Hitwise data cited in Dealerscope. The weekend was so successful for the company, in fact, that Cyber Monday went on to become the biggest shopping day in the company’s history.

Investors are always looking for stocks that are poised to beat at earnings season and Target Corporation TGT may be one such company. The firm has earnings coming up pretty soon, and events are shaping up quite nicely for their report.That is because

Shares of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) have fallen 21% since peaking three months ago, and that's not the kind of direction you want to be heading in just ahead of a crucial financial update. Best Buy stock's all-time high in mid-August came just days before the consumer electronics retailer posted its fiscal second-quarter numbers.

(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhone models launched in September, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.
A lower-than-expected demand for the new iPhones and

If you're a stock investor, you probably think about market crashes from time to time, and there's a good chance that you dread them. The reason a stock market crash is virtually inevitable is that so far in our market's history, there have been always been crashes every now and then. You can also see that while the stock market's average annual gain over many decades has approached 10%, that's rarely near the actual return of any particular year.